Rescue Time – Skyrocket Your Personal Productivity Through Accountability
Want to be instantly more productive?
Here’s a simple way:
Be transparent about your work objectives to the important people around you, and then be accountable to them.
Let me go through why.
1. If you are keeping all your objectives to yourself…you may tend to cheat. No one will know your true progress. Sometimes…not even yourself.
If you miss your deadline, you may think it’s okay, because no one else is watching. You tell yourself you will make it up another time.
Is this process optimal? Not really.
But if you publicly declare your work objectives in clear specific terms to others, you are much more likely to fulfill them.
Because this time round, you feel the pressure to deliver what you say you will do. This is good pressure that will motivate you.
2. You want to be transparent to important people that matters. Get a peer who understands your work as your accountability partner.
If you are not doing your job, he will know. And he has to put you back in line.

